Pre-service teacher placements beyond urban settings

Key messages:

1. Placements beyond urban schools and early childhood settings offer significant learning opportunities for pre-service teachers. 
2. Ensuring communities, students and schools/early childhood settings have positive experiences during pre-service teacher placements is crucial. 
3. Successful placements hinge on strong relationships between ITE providers, placement settings and communities, and pre-service teachers.
4. There are various supports ITE providers can have in place to make professional experience placements a positive experience for pre-service teachers, as well as for placement settings and communities. 

Introduction/why read:

The Spotlight report talks about the importance of setting up pre-service teachers for success in regional and remote placements. This is more important than ever given the supply and demand issues reported in the media recently, especially the focus on shortages in remote areas.

Read our Spotlight and learn more about the featured programs and partnerships that demonstrate the benefits of preparing, supporting and facilitating pre-service teacher placements in our outer regional and remote Australian schools.

We need to ensure that Australia’s 4 million students experience quality teaching and that our pre-service teachers have the networks and support to set them up for success!